Noteworthy album covers of 2011

I really like that cover picture. Reminds me of young adult fiction books for horse fan girls. And I love how there's a horse for each element in the pic: plant horse, water horse, air horse... Though it should have a sand horse too to make it complete. (Unless the real horse walking in the sand counts as "sand horse"?)

SOme of that artist's other work is pretty O_O, don't want to sully this thread with it though. Apparently he did some cover art for Prince too, but I can't quite figure out what.

http://www.jimwarren.com/site/album/Fine_Art/index.php

Well, at least we now know the name of that piece is "Seven Horses," so we just have to find them all.

I've only got five, so I'm assuming that the last two were drowned.

Apparently he did some cover art for Prince too, but I can't quite figure out what.

Maybe this one?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/princehorse.jpg

I checked and the Prince thing turns out to be this:

http://lcart3.narod.ru/image/fantasy/jim_warren/Jim_Warren_Around_the_World_in_a_Day.jpg

^ original cover art for Around The World In A Day btw

Oh wow, I'm not sure if that's actually better or horribly worse than the picture they ended up using for ATWIAD.

Also, the actual album cover has pretty much all the same elements as Warren's version (which makes sense, since they images are based on the song titles and lyrics), but the bearded man hugging a tiger is missing. I wonder what happened with that?

any great artwork prince ever had was by accident, wasn't it?

Is the tiger hugglez from one of the songs on the album?

my old roommate had the last trail of dead album & the artwork was really cool -- singer drew it by hand & it flowed all the way throughout the booklet iirc

the new one is weezer style trolling of course

pretty impressive drawing imo

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12703-the-century-of-self.jpg

Yeah I wasn't too impressed w/ that album overall but I think that's one of their, uh, better covers.

doing it all with a blue biro was unfortunate tho

Reminiscent of Mansun's Six, that whole sorceror's apprentice vibe.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Pop-Ambient.jpg

^ewww

Love the Tim Hecker sleeve, really draws me in. Someone's put up a video montagey thing for 'The Piano Drop' on the YouTube which utilises similar (same source?) imagery.

Here's the real Panda Bear cover.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/tomboy452cov.jpg

It's not particularly noteworthy, imo.

someones been watching the crow

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Party-Store.jpg

That cover is pretty great - I didn't know who it was at first but knew that they had to be from Michigan.

http://www.maxumi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/juniorsanchez4-290x290.jpg

...................................

looooooooooool

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueb3lb5h51qzv9mho1_500.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/fleetfoxes_1.jpg

Not all that different from the Trail of Dead cover, actually.

Unlike that Trail of Dead cover, though, that's something I would probably at least pick up and look at if I browsing through old records in the store.

uhhhhh

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/meatpuppets_1.jpg

lol what

the one trip maker posted is awesome

They've made some bad choices in their time.
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It's the new Dirtbombs all techno covers record.

Oh no the Meat Puppets :(

xp oooh looking forward to hearing that, great cover too!

meat puppets reminds me of this saga: http://images.theage.com.au/2008/08/15/181775/420swirl-420x0.jpg

Can't believe this hasn't turned up yet:

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/escapevelocity_362.jpg

Asses + Delorean in 2011 = not a damn original element about it.

NEW ZOMBI ALBUM<?? WANT!!

meat puppets reminds me of this saga: http://images.theage.com.au/2008/08/15/181775/420swirl-420x0.jpg

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yeah I was gonna say the only ppl who use that effect = the paedo from that story and husbands uploading photos of their wives to amateur porn sites (as is my understanding)

http://www.peekaboorecords.com/images/news/2010/octopus_project_hexadecagon.jpg

yikes

2011: The Year of Thinking Maybe Cocorosie Covers Weren't That Bad Compared

hate this headache inducing psychedelic luke abbott thing

http://www.bordercommunity.com/borderbooking/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/luke-abbott-trans-forest-alignmentSMALL3.jpg

Oh wow. New ZOMBI coming up. That is right now my most anticipated album of the year

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shapeshifting-320x291.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JzZag.jpg

Low - C'mon

No one values typography anymore. ;_;

that toro y moi cover is revolting -- you can see the sweat glistening on the skin in between the sparse mustache hairs wtf!

Rather like the new Twilight Singers one

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B004GHYC1G.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg